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Just Came from Wonderland

Posted on | March 8, 2010 | No Comments

 

Yesterday, I posted on my Facebook and Twitter status that I will ‘unfriend’ and ‘unfollow’ anyone who will give me spoilers about Alice in Wonderland. Guess what, a couple responded and one friend actually commented, “That’s a century-old story bro. it’s been spoiled for a long long time.” Oo nga naman. However, to tell the truth about it, I totally forgot what it was all about in the first place. Alice in Wonderland? Why should I even care? But quite frankly, the moment I saw its trailer a week ago, I knew from then on that it’s one movie I’d hate to miss. And so today it happened.

Photo from Wikimapia.org

My date with the movie Alice in Wonderland came as a perfect timing as well. I was with wifey and we watched it on Women’s Day. It was sort of a treat for her but I enjoyed it nevertheless. Alice in Wonderland got me totally blown away. It was by far the best movie I’ve ever seen in years, if not the first ever. Well how can it not be, it was in 3D. Yet although it wasn’t my first 3D movie, I consider it my first 3D movie that I enjoyed. The first one was in MOA’s iMax, and disappointingly, I call that experience an iLame. During that time, Superman was shown, to my disgust, as not in full 3D and I got distracted each time an icon appears on one corner of the screen – red glass for remove and green glass to put it on. I find it so annoying that it’s like having a seatmate chatting all throughout the movie. Since then I scoff at 3D labels and I prefer 2D any time. Well, not until today. Alice in Wonderland in 3D is in FULL 3D. Not by selected scenes but in ALL scenes.

I’m so awestruck with Alice in Wonderland in 3D that it probably will be the movie that will stick to my mind the whole year through, unless of course another 3D film will outdo it. Which at this point I highly doubt. Alice in Wonderland is one tough act to follow. To me, it’s like as if everything came in as a perfect symphony. The cast and characters were well matched and everyone seemed as interesting as the others (I kept on trying to recall if Jabberwocky rings a bell). The story wasn’t only re-lived but made more unforgettable – who wouldn’t appreciate the fact that the Mad Hatter can actually beat the Jabbawockeez (ah, there goes)? Its 3D scenes were rendered almost as realistically as possible which made one like me to be so deeply immersed from start to finish (we so loved it that wifey and I were probably the last to stand at least until one of the mushrooms stopped growing). What’s more is that however keen you are from finding movie mistakes, in the end logic will tell you to just let go. Why? Because, dude, it is only a dream. So that next time you wonder why Alice’s dress seems to shrink and grow along with her, you just have to remind yourself to stop acting like one miserable movie critic and instead try not to miss details of a well-crafted fairy tale movie. One that’s so good that for a moment I’ve actually thought I’m in my own dream – sans the old-fashioned dress…and of course the corset. So tonight after I hit the sack and as my eyes go into REM, I can be the fat floating Cheshire cat. I can even be the white rabbit. Of course I can be one of those red armies. And yes, I can even be the sheesha-smoking caterpillar. More so, I can be the gnarly white monster dog. And if the dream gods have assigned every character to everyone (who’s probably salivating on their pillows by then), I can even be the Jabberwocky and allow myself to be slain with pleasure by the beautiful Alice. Wow, I can’t wait for tonight’s dreamland. Goodnight world!

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Sheesha-smoke Puffers:

*Those pesky 3D insects at the start of the film were the very insects that I saw in my dreams a couple of days ago. (Was I in ‘the dreamland’ before.)

*While I was typing this blog and I actually thought I saw letters in 3D.

*I love the 3D effect so much that I almost stood up and clapped my hands the moment the THX intro was played. (Goodness, the promdi in me.)

*I can’t wait to see more 3D movies.

*Did you know that 3D movies actually existed during the war era?

*Lastly, you’d wonder where the little Marcus was all along? He wasn’t with us. (wink, wink)

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Mood: 3/10 Honks! (After dreamland, the reality of school work is already creeping in.)

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